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2. legal issues
3. legislation

Walking with Workers
While in the Navy, Admiral Joe Sestak saw training and retraining programs with
proven results. If you enter the Navy with a high school diploma, you will learn
basic skills in technical schools through training. Then, you’re sent off to learn to
operate and maintain basic technical equipment at sea. After that, you’re sent off
again to learn to operate and maintain the most advanced technical command
and control equipment at sea. Ultimately, you will learn to manage technicians
under you while continuing to broaden your own skills. It’s that type of an “all
hands on deck” workforce that Joe will fight for in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Toomey Talks
Admiral Sestak Walks
“You don’t have to look at just what I
say, you can look at what I did.”
“Don’t judge me by my intentions –
hold me accountable for results.”
On American Workers and Offshoring
Here’s What Toomey Has Said…
 “If we are to put these Americans back to
work, we need a recovery in which
manufacturing leads the way.” [Sen. Toomey
Report on American Manufacturing, 10/15/12]
…But Here’s What He Has Done
 Filibustered the Bring Jobs Home Act
twice as a senator, which would end tax
breaks for corporations that outsource jobs
overseas and would have given tax writeoffs to companies that bring back home
 Voted for tax loopholes that export jobs
and to allow companies to avoid having to
pay federal taxes on earnings from foreign
factories
 Opposed bills to help the American auto
industry recover during the Great Recession
 Supported NAFTA – which cost 44,000
Pennsylvania jobs, calling it “good for
America”
What Joe Sestak Has Done
 Co-sponsored and voted for the Trade and
Globalization Assistance Act to help
workers who lose jobs due to globalization
 Co-sponsored the Investment in America
Act to create American jobs through hightech research and development
 Voted to close tax loopholes that ship jobs
overseas
 Voted for the Auto Industry Financing and
Restructuring Act, which provided bridge
loans that prevented the collapse of the
domestic auto industry – while demanding
strict accountability for taxpayer funds and
industry innovation to achieve greater
efficiency and international competitiveness
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Sen. Toomey Talks
Admiral Sestak Walks
“You don’t have to look at just what I
say, you can look at what I did.”
“Don’t judge me by my intentions –
hold me accountable for results.”
On Honing Human Capital through Retraining & Education
Here’s What Toomey Has Said…
 “Senator Toomey is a strong supporter of
the bipartisan Workforce Innovation
Opportunity Act, which modernizes and
streamlines federal job training programs to
ensure Pennsylvanians have the skills they
need to find high-paying jobs in today's
economy.” [Sen. Toomey’s official Senate website,
3/25/15]
…But Here’s What He Has Done
 Voted three times against Workforce
Investment Act (WIA) grants which go
toward programs that help job seekers, laid
off workers, youth, veterans, persons with
disabilities and employers
 Voted three times to defund the
Department of Education’s Office of
Career, Adult and Technical Education,
which includes the career and technical
education funding for states to improve
career and technical education in high
schools, community colleges, as well as
vocational and technical schools
 Filibustered a bill which would have
reauthorized the Veterans Retraining
Assistance Program (VRAP), an initiative
which helped 75,000 unemployed veterans
learn new skills so that they could find jobs
 Voted against increasing Pell Grant
funding
 Opposed increasing funding for student
financial aid
What Joe Sestak Has Done
 Created the Higher Education and
Workforce Development Advisory
Committee in the 7th Congressional District,
which consisted of local business owners,
educators and parents and conducted a
Workforce Development Summit with the
committee which focused on the needs of
local businesses, programs available at local
technical and vocational schools and the
process of matching recent graduates to
local businesses
 Voted four times to fund the Department
of Education’s Office of Career, Adult and
Technical Education, which includes the
career and technical education funding for
states to improve career and technical
education in high schools, community
colleges, and vocational/technical schools
 Sponsored legislation to allow veterans to
pursue vocational training programs under
the post-9/11 GI Bill
 Voted for legislation that increased the max
for Pell Grants, and fought for provisions to
increase Pell Grants by $800 to $4,850 in
the College Cost Reduction Act, and again
from $4,850 to $5,350 in The American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
 Voted for and original co-sponsor of the
Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act
of 2009, increasing Pell Grant maximums to
$5,550 by 2010 and $6,900 by 2019
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Sen. Toomey Talks
Admiral Sestak Walks
“You don’t have to look at just what I
say, you can look at what I did.”
“Don’t judge me by my intentions –
hold me accountable for results.”
On Looking Out for Workers
Here’s What Toomey Has Said…
 “For crying out loud, I come from a bluecollar family myself.” [The Allentown Morning
What Joe Sestak Has Done
 Co-sponsored and voted for improved
worker safety laws to increase penalties and
Call, 9/26/2000]
require better reporting of violations
…But Here’s What He Has Done
 Voted to ensure unions’ access to
 Voted three times to defund OSHA, a
employees by preventing inaccurate labeling
federal agency which looks out for the
of employees as supervisors— supervisors
health and safety of all workers
are not allowed to collectively bargain
 Voted against funding for other agencies
 Voted for the Earning Warning and Health
devoted to ensuring safety in the workplace,
Care for Workers Affected by Globalization
including the Mine Safety and Health
Act which provided for more advanced
Administration
notice of a plant closing or layoff, requiring
 Voted three times against Department of
employers to provide employees with a 90Labor budget a senator
day notice of mass layoffs and plant
closures and to inform employees of
 Voted for the first reversal of a
benefits and services that would help them
workplace safety law in 30 years and
with an impending job loss
permanently prohibited federal regulators
from implementing workplace safety laws
 Voted for every Department of Labor
against repetitive stress injuries
budget as a congressman
 As a congressman, voted to deny collective  Voted to increase penalties for corporate tax
bargaining rights to certain workers
fraud and provide tax relief to
approximately 850,000 working families in
 Co-sponsored a bill to amend the National
Pennsylvania
Labor Relations Act and allow an
employer to disseminate information about  Co-sponsored the Public Safety Employerunions and strikes, and co-sponsored a bill
Employee Cooperation Act that permits
to limit union elections to secret ballots
public safety workers to bargain collectively
for better wages and benefits
 As a senator, co-sponsored the National
Right-to-Work Act twice
 In a letter, said that the Commonwealth
Foundation’s goal to “slay Pennsylvania’s
Big Labor Goliath” is “just as important to
our future” as his work “in the U.S. Senate.”
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*Citations will be provided upon request*
Sen. Toomey Talks
Admiral Sestak Walks
“You don’t have to look at just what I
say, you can look at what I did.”
“Don’t judge me by my intentions –
hold me accountable for results.”
On Fair Pay for Working Families
Here’s What Toomey Has Said
 “We must figure out how to help people lift
themselves out of poverty.” [Sen. Toomey
What Joe Sestak Has Done
 Co-sponsored and voted for the Fair
Minimum Wage Act to raise the salary of
Newsletter, 10/31/14]
millions of workers and bolster America’s
…But Here’s What He Has Done
middle class
 Filibustered the minimum wage bill as a
 Supported an increase in the federal
senator
minimum wage in 2014
 As a congressman, voted against increasing  Co-sponsored and voted for the Lilly
the minimum wage and voted to reclassify
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which allows a
some workers to allow employers to
woman to gain redress whenever she learns
eliminate paying overtime
she was unfairly discriminated against in her
 Opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
wages for the equivalent jobs as a man
 Filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act
 Co-sponsored and voted for the Paycheck
twice as a senator
Fairness Act, which calls for equal pay for
equal work as men, because most women
 Served as the president of the anti-union
currently only earn about 77 to 92 cents for
Club For Growth where he opposed Davisevery dollar earned by a man but minority
Bacon prevailing wage protections that
women earn even less – African-American
guarantee fair pay
women earn 64 cents for every dollar every
by a white man; Latinas earn 54 cents for
each dollar earned by a white male
Paid for by Friends of Joe Sestak
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